2016 discharge: European Environment Agency (EEA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the financial year 2016.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1370 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Environment Agency for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency for the implementation of the latter’s budget for 2016.

This decision is accompanied by a resolution of the European Parliament containing the observations which form an integral part of the discharge decision in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 (please refer to the summary dated 18.4.2018).

In this resolution, Parliament stressed that the work-life balance should be given priority. It observed that the average sick leave amounts to an average of almost three working weeks. It called on the Agency as a matter of urgency to examine this issue with a view to ascertaining and addressing the major causes thereof, and to establish in particular whether workplace stress plays any role.